September 2023
Koryo Studio Featured Artwork
A compilation of featured pieces of artwork presented weekly in the Koryo Studio Newsletter.
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Featured Artwork 1.
Let’s Pass in All the Sports Activities!
(Part of the Sports Propaganda Poster Collection)
In a track and field competition to pass the people’s physical fitness assessment, a worker breaks through the winning tape. The artist, Kye Sang Hua, emphasises this by having him also slice through the slogan.
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Featured Artwork 2.
Chollima Steelworks
(Part of Eddo Hartmann’s Photography Project)
Koryo Studio arranged for Dutch photographer Eddo Hartmann to visit North Korea on four shooting trips between 2014 and 2017. This is his story of photographing the highlight of his trip the Chollima Steelworks.
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Featured Artwork 3.
Red Necktie
(Part of North Korean Comics Collection)
Comics (Kurimchaek) are available to purchase or borrow from the library or street stalls for youth in North Korea. A form of soft propaganda covering everything from historical drama, anti-Japanese guerilla war, Korean war right up to modern times with north Korean soldiers on a spying mission in the south.
